A Place for Madness
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- Publication date
- 1994
- Topics
- frontline (television program), Mentally ill -- Deinstitutionalization -- Massachusetts, Deinstitutionalization -- Social aspects, Mental health laws -- Massachusetts, Crime prevention -- Massachusetts, Hospitals, Psychiatric -- trends, Mental Disorders -- rehabilitation, Deinstitutionalization -- trends, Dangerous Behavior, Human Rights, Crime prevention, Mental health laws, Mentally ill -- Deinstitutionalization, Social policy, Northampton (Mass.) -- Social policy, United States, Massachusetts, Massachusetts -- Northampton
- Publisher
- [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video
- Language
- English
Examines the troubling conflict between protecting the rights of the mentally ill to live outside mental hospitals and safeguarding society from those who are dangerous to themselves and to others.
1 videocassette (57 min.) : 1/2 in
General public, health personnel
VHS
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired
Narrated by Will Lyman ; interviews of Alan Stone, Steven Schwartz, Homayoun Shirazi, Clyde Bergstresser, Maurice Richardson, and released mental patients and their families and neighbors
Written and produced by DeWitt Sage ; associate producer, Rebecca-Berman ; director of photography, Bob Richman ; editor, David Hanser ; second editor, Dena Seidel ; sound recordist and video engineer, Eddie O'Connor ; additional sound, Michael Barofsky ; gaffer, Jonathan Nichols ; on-line editor, Steve Fitzpatrick ; mixer, Ken Hahn ; courtroom drawings by Christine Cornell. For Frontline: Post-production producer, Robin Parmelee ; production manager, Hersh Shorey ; post-production supervisor, Colleen Wilson ; off-line editor, Janis L. Henwood Khorsi ; on-line editors, Mary Fenton, Dan Lesiw ; associate producer, Courtney Hayes ; series editor, Mame Campbell ; senior producers, Michael Sullivan, Martin Smith ; executive editor, Louis Wiley, Jr. ; executive producer, David Fanning
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers
An episode of the television program Frontline
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- 2020-03-15 05:25:28
- Associated-names
- Sage, Dewitt L; Sullivan, Michael; Smith, Martin (Martin E.); Fanning, David; Lyman, Will; WGBH Educational Foundation; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); PBS Video
- Color
- color
- Identifier
- APlaceforMadness
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- sound
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 30304174
- Year
- 1994
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